A group of Cal administrators will take a tour of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium on Friday morning, a day before the No. 8 Bears and the Gophers play in the facility's second game.

Cal, developing renovation plans for Memorial Stadium, is welcoming lessons learned during the building of the $288.5 million stadium in Minneapolis.

The UC Board of Regents is scheduled to vote today on Cal's financing plan for the Memorial renovations, and the regents will consider the final design and project plan at a January meeting.

The Gophers believe their facility has revitalized the campus and the program.

"On the bus ride coming down University, you could just see that it's a whole different era now for our football program and for our team," quarterback Adam Weber said after Minnesota christened the stadium with a 20-13 win over Air Force last weekend. "All the excitement that we felt, this raw emotion of excitement definitely feeds into you and something truly special kind of shivers down your back."

TCF Bank Stadium is an open-air horseshoe design, seats 50,805 spectators and can expand to hold about 80,000. It sports the third-largest video board in college football at 48 feet high and 108 feet wide.

The stadium is the first for football on the Minnesota campus for the first time since 1981. To instill a sense of ownership in students and community, planners lined the promenade with 87 plaques to represent each county in Minnesota and added a quote from the school fight song on the arch of the student entrance. There is also a wall that honors Minnesota veterans and a tribute to Minnesota's 11 Indian tribes.